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Jakob Larsen, director of Danish Athletics, revealed at the pre-race press conference that the guiding concept…

Gary Cantrell clanged a bell at 6:40 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, signaling 70 runners to jog off into the woods on…

As soon as they’d had a chance to mop the sweat or rinse the vomit out of their mouth, the top finishers of the…

Travis McCathie is an average 37-year-old, and yet, on August 13, he finished the Bigfoot 200 Endurance Run. On…

Endurance athletes, triathletes and distance runners, are a humble lot—hardworking, long suffering, and taught to…

Courtney Dauwalter is a real nice girl, but competitive. She’s 33 now and married, and living in Golden, Colo., but…

Bao Nhia Thao is maybe 5-foot-2, with an enigmatic smile—smooth and benign.

Despite miserable weather, 95 percent of of the 27,042 common folk who started Monday’s Boston Marathon eventually…

The plan had seemed so simple when it was hatched in their mom’s basement. But as the plane was landing in Nairobi,…

At just 30 years old, Yuki Kawauchi is in a distance running category of his own. As of January 1, he has run the…

“My brother used to cover for me, and tell my mom I was visiting my grandma when I was out running,” says Diane…

Warmed up and stripped down, 15 blade-thin runners milled on the track, game-faced, gathering themselves. A few…

Carolyn Helker’s daughter, Hannah, is quite competitive. She gets that from her father, Eddy. When Hannah was young,…

Indoor American 800-meter record holder Ajee Wilson was stripped of that record for testing positive for zeranol, a…

Fifteen-year-old Cromwell High School freshman Andraya Yearwood won the girls’ 100-meter and 200-meter races at the…

Most Twin Cities high school cross country and track teams have Somali students on the roster. Some of these prep…

It was about 4 p.m. in Iten, Kenya when Edna Kiplagat got hold of me on Skype. The connection was poor, so she tried…

“One selfless London Marathon runner sacrificed his own race to help a physically exhausted fellow runner across…

Nike’s Breaking2 campaign was unsuccessful.

Canadian endurance runner Gary Robbins had been running—which is to say, sliding, clawing, and bushwhacking, with a…